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The Ford Mustang GTD Competition Just Obliterated the Chevy Corvette ZR1X’s Nurburgring Lap Record

There’s a new Nurburgring King, it hails from America, and it just embarrassed a whole crop of world-class cars on the pavement that matters.

On Friday, Ford announced the Mustang GTD Competition set a Nurburgring lap time of 6:40.835. To be clear, that’s one of the fastest times of any street-legal car money can buy, and is bested only by the the Mercedes-Benz AMG One hypercar, which is powered by a Formula 1 powertrain.

The Mercedes-Benz AMG One’s ‘Ring time is 6:29.090, for those keeping score.

More importantly, the Mustang GTD Competition absolutely obliterated the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1’s ‘Ring time of 6:50.763 and ZR1X’s time of 6:49.275.

If you’re wondering how in the world the Mustang GTD Competition shaved 11.237 from …


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Author: Joel Feder

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